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C2 to refuse to obey a person, decision, law, situation, etc.对抗;违抗;反抗

It is rare to see children openly defying their teachers.很少看见孩子公然跟老师作对。
A few workers have defied the majority decision and gone into work despite the strike.几个工人不顾大多数人的罢工决定自己去上工了。
The fact that aircraft don't fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy (= act against) the law of gravity.我总认为飞机没有从天上掉下来,是不符合万有引力定律的。
A forest fire raging in southern California is defying (= is not changed by) all attempts to control it.尽管采取了各种措施,加利福尼亚南部的一场森林大火依然在肆虐。
defy belief/description/explanation

C2 to be extreme or very strange and therefore impossible to believe, describe, or explain(因过于极端或奇特而)让人无法相信/描述/解释

The chaos at the airport defies description.机场一片混乱,难以用语言形容。
defy sb to do sth

to tell someone to do something that you think will be impossible激,惹;向…挑战;

I defy you to prove your accusations.我倒要看看你能不能拿出证据来证实你的指控。
I defy you to tell where I've painted over the scratch on my car.你倒是给我指出来车的哪个地方因为有划痕而补过漆。

More examples

The mess in Bart's room defies description!

His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.

In 1970 he defied the three-line whip against EC membership.

They defied convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient.

Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals.


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